History & Iberian Studies (Spanish or Portuguese) with a year abroad

You are required to take the following History module:

• Historical Skills, Sources & Approaches (30 credits)

Iberian Studies

You are required to take the following Spanish modules:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits) or Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)
• Global Iberias (30 credits)

• The Making of Britain 400–1400 (30 credits)
• European History 400–1500 (30 credits)
• Early Modern Britain 1500–1750 (30 credits)
• Power, Belief & Culture in Europe 1500–1800(30 credits)
• The Worlds of the British Empire, c1700–1960 (30 credits)
• Europe from 1793 to 1991 (30 credits)
• Politics & Society in Britain, 1780–1945 (30 credits)
• World History, 1870s–2000s (30 credits)

Iberian Studies

There are no optional modules in the first year.

2nd Year

Your second year of study is made up of the required modules outlined below, plus two optional modules from the deaprtment of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American and two 30 credit History optional modules. It is possible to take one History option at another college within the University of London.

History

There are no required History modules in Year 2.

Iberian Studies

You are required to take the following Spanish module:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits) or Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)

History

In your second year, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 30-credit modules, which may typically include:

• The Northern Ireland Troubles (30 credits)
• History of Feminism (30 credits)
• The Black Death in England (30 credits)
• Faraway so Close: The Middle East since 1800 (30 credits)
• China: From Imperial State to People’s Republic (30 credits)
• The Civilising Mission: French Imperialism since 1750 (30 credits)
• War in the Pacific, 1898 to 1975 & beyond:Strategy & Diplomacy (30 credits)
• An additional range of intercollegiate ‘Group II’ 30 credit modules offered by our partner colleges in the University of London

In addition you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 15-credit modules, which may typically include:

• Atlantic Slavery: West Africa & the Caribbean, 1492-1807 (15 credits)
• Europe in the Second World War (15 credits)
• The Hundred Years War (15 credits)
• Electric Cities: The Experience of Modernity in London, Melbourne, New York & Paris,1870–1929 (15 credits)
• Orientalism, Race, Islam (15 credits)
• tudents may also take one optional 15 credit module offered elsewhere in the Faculty

Iberian Studies

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional Iberian modules which may typically include:

• Catalan Language (15 credits)
• The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature & Culture (15 credits)
• Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain & Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature & Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Language Acts & Worldmaking in Medieval & Early Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain & Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction in Brazil & Portugal (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature & Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Modernism: Outside In (15 credits)

This year of study is spent abroad. Partner institutions for Iberian studies currently include:

Spanish

• Alicante
• Cadiz
• Carlos III (Madrid)
• Córdoba
• País Vasco
• Pompeu Fabra
• PUC (Chile)
• Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
• Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
• UNAM (Mexico)
• Pacifico (Peru)
• Salamanca
• San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

Portuguese

• Lisboa
• Nova de Lisboa
• Coimbra
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Universidade Federal da Bahia
• Universidade de São Paulo
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

You may also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or undertake an internship/work placement in a Portuguese or Spanish-speaking environment.

4th Year

History

There are no required history modules in Year 4.

Iberian Studies

You are required to take the following Iberian module:

• Core Spanish Language IV or Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)

History

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of special subject optional modules, which may typically include:

• Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350–700 (30 credits)
• The Enlightenment (30 credits)
• The Experience of Power in Nigeria since 1900 (30 credits)
• Red, White & Blues: Jazz & the United States in the 20th Century (30 credits)
• Women & Gender in Early Modern England (30 credits)
• Additional University of London intercollegiate special subject modules.

In addition, you are required to take either the special subject associated dissertation (30 credits) or the Free Long Standing Essay (30 credits), which can be on any subject of your choice.

Iberian Studies

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional Iberian modules which may typically include:

• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
• Images of Spain: Stereotypes in Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
• Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)
• The Writer & the Public: Journalism in Spain (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages (15 credits)
• Brazilian Poetry & Song: 1958 to the present (15 credits)
• Lusophone African Literature II: The Postcolonial Experience (15 credits)
• Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa & the Americas, 16th-20th Centuries(15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore modules may change.